Objective
Description:
The ELSA laboratory is a unique European facility equipped with a reaction wall system made of a 16m-high vertical wall and two 25mX21m strong horizontal floors. The floor-wall system provides the strength and rigidity necessary to resist the high loads that are applied to the test structures using servo-controlled electro-hydraulic actuators. The actuators are equipped with load cells to measure forces and the deformation of the structure is monitored by means of digital transducers based on optical concepts. A particularly original feature of the ELSA reaction-wall facility is the possibility to simulate, through the so-called pseudo-dynamic test method, the response of large and heavy structures to severe dynamic loading, such as induced by an earthquake. Many innovative, large-scale experiments have been successfully performed in ELSA since it's opening in 1992.
Application:
Potential Users of the ELSA facility should contact directly the Project Manager at the address indicated above, clearly indicating through a suitable description and supporting drawings the exact nature of the test to be performed. Applications will be assessed and decided upon at the 6-monthly meeting of the ECOLEADER Users Selection Panel made up of the Directors of the ECOLEADER shaking tables and the ELSA facility plus outside assessors. Priority will be given to high-quality research projects developed in a collaborative, multi-national context. In case of equal rating, priority will be given to new users groups.
Project Manager:
Michel Geradin, Joint Research Centre, Ispra / Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety (ISIS)/Safety in Structural Mechanics Unit (SSMU), Via Enrico Fermi, 1, Ispra (VA) 21020, P.O. BOX TP 480, Italy
Tel: +39-033-2789989
Fax: +39-033-2789049
E-Mail: michel.geradin@jrc.it
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